School: An Gleann Ruadh, Cill Fhíonáin (roll number 3221)
- Location:
- Glenroe, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Conmidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0511, Page 144
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- (continued from previous page)the Friday or Saturday morning previous to the encounter with British forces, McClure, while on guard at the window saw a man peeping through a hedge, and wanted to shoot him, but Crowley would not hear of it.
On Sunday morning the three men had breakfast at Hanley's as usual and on hearing of the approach of the military, they sought shelter in Kilclooney Wood. When the military entered Hanleys, they questioned Mary Hanley about the three cups on the table and asked who had used them. Her reply was - "So you think we need no breakfast."
After Crowley's fall, the wounded man was taken to a house where Fr. Smedwick administered the last rites -
As x the informer was leaving the house of Trench - Lady Ashton's agent in Mitchelstown - he met another neighbour x in the avenue and a little distance behind a nother neighbour y. (three would be informers). It was believed that the first got the blood-money.
- Collector
- Micheál Mac Conmidhe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 35
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Glenroe, Co. Limerick
